An Alabama couple has filed suit against the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services and Sevierville law enforcement alleging their two children were illegally taken for nine months after they were wrongly arrested during a traffic stop.
Nicholas and Elizabeth Frye were on a vacation at a Dollywood-area resort to celebrate their youngest child’s seventh birthday in February 2024 when they were pulled over after leaving a Walmart parking lot, according to the federal lawsuit.
They were charged with DUI, public intoxication, child abuse and neglect and aggravated child abuse and neglect while their children were held at the police station, the lawsuit, filed Feb. 25, said. The children remained at the station until their grandmother made the trip from Alabama to collect them…